Comprendre #bitcoin? (cc @je_brun @ecogex

For me the jury is still out on Bitcoin. I dont have the time or money to "invest" in it. Many people are counting on the value going up, and now would be a smart time to get into bitcoins. What many people are doing is called "mining" for bitcoins. They use the computers CPU to mine the coins. This is practically worthless waste of energy usage IMO if you do this by yourself. You can however increase your mining capacity if you buy a very nice computer with 4 of the best ATI radeon graphics cards in one computer and making use of the GPUs of the video cards, not the CPUs of the computer. Even then, it still doesnt pay for itself. You would then need to join a bitcoin mining club and mine along with those people as a group effort in order to mine coins. Is it worth it? Maybe, maybe not.